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Chewy Squirrel
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Joined: January 27, 2003
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From: NYC
|  Posted: 2013-03-17 01:10
Enabling shaders makes the game look better, but it also makes it impossible to see anything when you are facing a star.
For example:
Shaders off
Shaders on
While the star is very pretty with shaders on it is impossible to see anything in that direction, not to mention the hole it sears into your retina. You can see enemy ships, objects, planets, etc much more easily with shaders off. Leaving shaders off is therefore tactically advantageous.
Is there any chance you can tone down the star effects with shaders on? Or at least add some sort of "star filter" toggle to ships, or maybe add a graphics slider for star effects? I want to leave shaders on for the other graphical improvements they confer but i also don't want to be blind when flying towards a star.
[ This Message was edited by: Chewy Squirrel on 2013-03-17 01:11 ]
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*Flash*
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| Posted: 2013-03-17 03:59
The game looks much better with shaders on but for me if i enable shaders my latency is higher so i just play with them off!
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Pantheon
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| Posted: 2013-03-17 07:35
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On 2013-03-17 03:59, *Flash* wrote:
The game looks much better with shaders on but for me if i enable shaders my latency is higher so i just play with them off!
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There's no way shaders makes your latency higher. Unless your machine is so, so, so, so, so, so underpowered it can't run a few rudamentry shaders.
Lower the bloom slider in-game, and the effect you don't like will be lowered.
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*Flash*
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| Posted: 2013-03-17 08:25
Sorry confused it with HDR
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Brutality
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| Posted: 2013-03-17 15:07
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On 2013-03-17 08:25, *Flash* wrote:
Sorry confused it with HDR
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Even HDR shouldn't effect your latency as it is just a graphical setting. Frames per second and latency are two entirely different things. 
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Pantheon
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| Posted: 2013-03-17 15:35
Shaders are programs run on your graphics card every time a frame is rendered. It doesn't touch anything to do with the game or network. Every game released today uses shaders to some extent - they just modify what you see on the screen based on an algorythm (reflections, shadows, etc).
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Faustus
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| Posted: 2013-03-22 13:26
Like they said, there is a slider in the graphical settings to turn down the bloom effect.. you can use that to reduce the glare, but keep the shaders on for per-pixel lighting and shadow effects.
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